Always In Startup Mode
From the very beginning of this blog, my tagline has always been “Critical thinking in software development”. It became sort of a mantra for me, and I would talk about the importance of critical thinking any chance I got. Leon Gersing and I would argue over who really owned that phrase, an argument he always lost ;-) But in the past 18 months or so things have changed, and my focus is very different now.
When I changed this blog, you may have noticed that I updated my tagline to “Always in startup mode”. When I first showed it to my wife, she chuckled and said “You got that right”. She knows firsthand the constant stream of ideas and work that I get myself into.
The startup mentality is kind of a curse. I think it’s a good curse, but it’s hard to explain sometimes. A startup’s brain never stops. It’s always thinking about what’s next, so much so that it takes a lot of discipline to focus on the current idea being worked on.
Once you’re in startup mode, you don’t ever really get out of it. That’s why the “Always in startup mode” mantra is so fitting. Those four words speak a simple truth about what it’s like to be a startup, to run a startup, and to balance the current startup with the ever-impending next one.
It is an itch that must be scratched, and once you start scratching, the itching never stops.
[Photo by dierken]
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